Wednesday, July 9, 2014

CASSETTE REVIEW: Lanuk “vV” (Baba Vanga)

Lanuk
brings forth a sound on “vV” that can be best described as electro-beats, but
as much as that label might get handed out lately it is still rarely as good as
this one right here. The songs move in
a way like scrambled seapunk with lasers and it can almost be on the verge of
noise. On the flip side of the
cassette, I hear something like R2D2 or the soundtrack to either a sci-fi or
horror B movie.

Side
A threw me off a little bit, but after listening to Side B and getting that
notion of a B sci-fi movie in my head, I couldn’t help but run with it when
listening through to Side A again. I don’t
have an exact plot because that might force me to write it up and I already
have enough to write, but it has something to do with space pirates, only not
so much in the “Serenity”/”Firefly” way.

No,
I see this as being a sort of extension of that show- sort of the same idea,
but not exactly- and it also blends in elements of Cowboy Bebop, if this was an
anime and not a live action B sci-fi movie.
There aren’t really a lot of good B sci-fi movies set in space (They’re
usually on planets), so perhaps this could serve as the soundtrack and
inspiration for someone to create one.